A healthy helm is a great thing.
And for everyone saying how much theyre excited for the lines, with Tatar on the first, I have bad news Babcock changes the lines every 5 minutes.
and to the people who are upset with the lines I have great news, babcock changes the lines every 5 minutes.

Ha.
And I've stated this multiple times, I love jurco.
I hope to hell the brass and babs have seen how amazing he's been despite his MINIMAL mistakes, and leave him up permanently.
Kids got drive, and the talent and size to back it up.
He seems perfect for a baptism-by-fire, change of pace from our usual over-ripening.

Interesting to say the least, smitty is not a top d man but him and quinceys inability to play together leaves us with this. Hoping for the best.

I like these pairings. They seem to have a lot more balance in each pairing. Would love to see it like this when E comes back, except move Smith down to play with Deke, and keep the top pairing as it has always been

Bull. Everyone has been wanting Tatar to get a chance with dats. Now he has it and people complain lol. There is no winning. Tatar is more gritty and fights hard every shift to score, he is perfect for Datsyuks wing, I think he will compliment him quite well.

That's actually an intimidating lineup looks like an actual nhl team again.

As I wrote, I'm a fan because of his agressive style. I also said before, already after his first game in Wings uniform, that this kid plays bigger than he is.

But the thing is that he got the chance to play on our top units and he produced nothin but mistakes. The more icetime he got the more mistakes he made. And not just little things, we talk about huge mistakes that cost us goals, if not games. I agree with you that he should get another chance. But first they need to play this young kid from Grand Rapids. He's nearly perfect in every case. No stupid plays, just little mistakes. No bad shifts. Just one bad pass vs. Florida and I'm sure that's what cost him his place in Pav's line.

He played almost perfect from lets say his 2nd or 3rd shift on. Jurco's able to do everything. He's a very fast skater, he shoots the puck well, he makes sick moves, he wins the board battles, he crashes the net, he's strong on the puck und cycles all around the net until he finds his linemates, he distributes the puck and he's even able to make defensive plays against the puck in the own zone.

Remember Steve Duchesne losing all his front chiclets in the Cup finals playoffs in 2002? He cleaned up his face shield and was back out for the next shift. Hockey players are not made of the same stuff as mere mortals...

“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."

I got home from work, blew the froth off a couple brews and have been watching episodes 1-3 of the 24/7 series.

As much as everyones seemingly hated it, i really enjoy it. In my few short years as a diehard wings fan, ive never gotten anywhere near as close to the team i love as i have with this series. And ill continue to appreciate it for what it is.

Even being able to watch/get to know the leafs players has gotten them growing on me as a team to follow (that Lupul's pretty damn good!)

Anyways, as the buzz grows along with my anticipation for tonights win, yes calling a WIN, i can only hope the boys carry some sort of momentum into the WC.

Such a good time of the year to be a wings fan.
In the words of literally every player on seemngly every team, "f***IN RIGHT BOYS!" LETS GO WINGS!

Remember Steve Duchesne losing all his front chiclets in the Cup finals playoffs in 2002? He cleaned up his face shield and was back out for the next shift. Hockey players are not made of the same stuff as mere mortals...

Whatevs, I got a really wicked papercut today in the office and it was a doozie. It smarted for at least two minutes!